A measure of accommodation is accorded children because they are not adults and thus not to be held to the same accountability standards. But should that same accommodation be accorded to a race of people? In the March 2001 edition of The American Enterprise magazine,...
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How to Lie with Non-Statistics
"Every year since 1950, the number of American children gunned down has doubled." Did you know that? It is just as well if you did not, because it is not true.It takes no research to prove that it is not true. If there had been just two children in America gunned down...
Public Education: The Department of Embezzlement
President Bush's "No Child Left Behind" school reform proposal passed in the House last week. Considering what a colossal black hole the U.S. Department of Education has become, the $24 billion plan would be more appropriately dubbed: No Dime Left Behind. If Beltway...
Timid Old World
The clones are coming! Lock your doors, hide your wives and children -- or, better yet, hold congressional hearings and pass a law. Angry villagers in academia and on Capitol Hill are crusading for a ban on human cloning -- a ban potentially so sweeping that it would...
Death Among Children: Tragedy at Tommy Lee’s
A 4-year-old boy died last weekend at the Malibu home of rock star Tommy Lee. How any right-thinking parents could entrust their child to a drug-addled celebrity who pled no contest to kicking his ex-wife (actress Pamela Anderson) while she held their newborn baby is...
Liberty for Cuba
"Our goal is not to have an embargo against Cuba; it is freedom in Cuba." Thus spake President Bush last month, at a White House ceremony marking the 99th anniversary of Cuban independence. "The sanctions our Government enforces against the Castro regime are not just...
Bill & Hil & Bob & Ted’s Fugitive Pal
Who is Mark Jimenez? More importantly: Where is Mark Jimenez? And why doesn't anyone in Washington care that this fugitive businessman -- indicted in 1998 on 17 counts of illegal campaign contributions to Democrats -- remains at large, defiantly thumbing his nose at...
“Trade Imbalances”: The Seen and Unseen
I buy more from my grocer than he buys from me. I buy more from my auto dealer than he buys from me. The trade imbalance doesn't stop there. My grocer and auto dealer both buy more from their wholesaler than the wholesaler buys from them. These are examples of trade...
Straw Men vs. Capital Punishment
Two days after Timothy McVeigh's execution, The New York Times published eight letters to the editor discussing the event and expressing an opinion on the death penalty. Six of the eight were against executing murderers, one was in favor, and one was in favor in a...
Once Upon a Rhyme
Limp Bizkit lyrics. Beeper numbers. TV jingles. Carson Daly's vital statistics. Such is the stuff that clutters the minds of American boys and girls. It wasn't always this way. Once upon a time, students had their heads crammed full with poetry by great old writers --...
McVeigh and the Death Penalty
The execution of Timothy McVeigh has again raised the issue of capital punishment. Much of the case against capital punishment does not rise above the level of opaque pronouncements that it is "barbaric," by which those who say this presumably mean that it makes them...
Moral Compromise: Why There is No Peace in Palestine
The Palestinians, you may have noticed, have changed their tune. When the current orgy of violence against Israelis began last fall, the explanation out of Gaza City -- faithfully echoed by most of the Western media -- was that it was all Ariel Sharon's fault. His...
The Legacy of Slavery Hustle
Today, there are increasing numbers of black professionals and scholars advocating reparations for slavery. New York Times staff writer Tamar Lewin, in her June 3 article "Calls for Slavery Reparations Getting Louder," says that a team of black lawyers have announced...
In Search of…an Energy Crisis
I had this column all figured out. "Good news," I was going to begin. "Gasoline prices are up. And why is that good news? Because it means more gasoline is on the way -- and more gas means cheaper gas." I intended to explain that prices were high because supplies of...
Gary Davis’ Political Masterpiece in California
Some people were surprised when California's Governor Gray Davis hired two Democratic Party operatives at $30,000 a month to serve as spinmeisters during the current electricity crisis. But all indications are that they are well worth their money. Think about it: Here...
Inept Teacher Training
American education will never be improved until we address a problem seen as too delicate to discuss. That problem is teacher philosophy and incompetency. If we were serious about efforts to improve public education, we'd shut down schools of education. Why? Schools...
EPA Games
What doesn't Carol Browner want us to know about her zealously activist reign at the Environmental Protection Agency? Six months ago, on her last day in office, Bill Clinton's former eco-chief oversaw the destruction of her computer files -- in clear violation of a...
How CNN Creates The News
How many families do you know that live in a "compound"? My dictionary defines a compound as "an enclosed area used for confining prisoners of war." But in the liberal media handbook, "compound" means any dwelling where God and guns are present. It's a loaded word...
The Mail Monopoly
The U.S. Postal Service has raised its rates twice this year and is already talking about raising rates again next year. It has also made noises about eliminating Saturday mail deliveries. But the big problem with the Postal Service is not any of these particular...
In Defense of Ballot Initiatives
In the two-year political cycle that culminated on Election Day 2000, some 350 initiative petitions were submitted to election officials in the 24 states that permit laws to be passed at the ballot box. Of those 350, only 76 made it onto the ballot. And of those 76,...
Why Was Elian Gonzalez Less Worthy Than Giselle Cordova?
Fidel Castro's recent collapse was caught on television, where the 74-year-old dictator's security guards could be heard exclaiming: "Aguantalo, rapido!" The phrase, which means "Hold him up, quickly!" captures the essence of the dictator's numbered days -- a...
In Praise of Hard Work
Why don't they preach what they practice?Non-conservatives dominate the mainstream media. In the media magazine Content, a poll showed that nearly 75 percent of Republicans found a liberal bias in the media, while nearly 50 percent of Democrats found the press "more...
Intended Consequences
Over the years, the phrase "unintended consequences" has come up with increasing frequency, as more and more wonderful-sounding ideas have led to disastrous results. By now, you might think that people with wonderful-sounding ideas would start to question what the...
China’s Olympic Sized Victory
Picture this: Beneath a towering portrait of Chairman Mao, brutal Chinese dictators bask in the warm glow of international good will as the world's top volleyball players romp across imported sand spread over Tiananmen Square -- the same bloodied site where government...
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